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discrimination, the 1960s, civil Rights, First Nations

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Thirteen-year-old Johnny Anders is something of a misfit, with no friends and a poor school record, but all this begins to change when he is awakened one night to find a soldier-ghost in his bedroom. Johnny is taken back in time to meet a series of unusual heroes in Canada's war history. These include Joan Bamford Fletcher, who commandeered Japanese soldiers to take hundreds of wounded civilians to safety through th...

Written primarily for students in higher education and student affairs graduate programs, Introduction to American Higher Education is a groundbreaking textbook that combines classic scholarship pertaining to colleges and universities with the most cutting-edge perspectives in the field.

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history.

First published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany.

This 1983 book records a fascinating analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland.

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This 1976 book shows how those halogenations involving the whole gamut of unsaturated organic molecules can be linked.

Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40, 000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years' time a wealthy young woman. Edited by her daughter Akiko, Hana's richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New ...

This book deals with the capability to store surplus commodities and the impact of stockpiles on prices and production.

The Legal Exploits of Randolph Mason collects all three short story anthologies of the amoral lawyer who extricates his clients from legal difficulties. Randolph Mason views Fate and Destiny with scorn, and his clients as mere pawns in games of legal strategy. A forerunner of more famous fictional lawyers (like his namesake, Perry Mason), Randolph Mason joins the ranks of detective Uncle Abner and other brilliant characters from the mind of Me...

»Juden sterben in Europa und man verscharrt sie wie Hunde.« So schließt der Brief, in dem Hannah Arendt im Oktober 1940 Gershom Scholem mitteilt, daß sich Walter Benjamin auf der Flucht vor den Nazis das Leben genommen hat. In Zeiten größter Bedrohung beginnt eine Korrespondenz, die getragen ist vom Engagement für das Werk des gemeinsamen Freundes und in der von New York und Jerusalem aus immer die Welt des europäischen Judentums im Blick blei...

Was ist Dichtung? Was kann, was soll sie bewirken? Wem soll sie (wenn überhaupt) dienen? Der Autor dreht und wendet diese Fragen in seinem dem koreanischen Dichter Kim Byongyon (1807-1863) gewidmeten Roman. »Der Dichter« stammt aus einer Familie des Hochadels, die in Ungnade fällt, als der Großvater sich auf die Seite von Aufständischen schlägt. Im Elend versucht der junge Mann sich als Dichter: mit einer Verdammung des Großvaters. Vergebens. ...

A wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's political and religious ideas.

Swedish country houses are among Europe's best-kept secrets. Little known to the outside world and rarely illustrated, they survive in surprisingly large numbers, often with their original furniture and decoration. This book tells their story.

This textbook explores how markets operate and governments' roles in addressing market failures.

This is a 1990 collection of interviews and essays by the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir.

This exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia.

This 1983 book attempted to address the dearth of analysis of the crisis of hypersensitivity in many of Proust's characters.